SPORTS
By Katherine Dunn | September 28, 2014
As the high school football season heads for its midpoint, players and teams continue to post impressive performances as they jockey for playoff position. Here are some of the statistics that stood out from this weekend and from the season through Week 4: 1 Win on the field for Manchester Valley over Westminster -- Friday's 31-14 victory (The Owls forfeited the 2011 game they won for using an ineligible player) 3 Interceptions by Howard's Bryson Craven in the 39-0 win over Mount Hebron 3 Of Calvert Hall's four victories coming on fourth-quarter touchdowns 4 Rushing touchdowns by Mount St. Joseph's Nevone McCrimmon in the first 21 minutes of the Gaels' 42-19 win over Loyola 4 Sacks by Atholton's Ronald Kearney in the Raiders' 20-6 homecoming win over Long Reach 5-0 Best record of any Baltimore-area team -- Mount Saint Joseph, which is off to its best start since 1995 10 Points allowed this season by Bel Air -- the least of any Baltimore-area team 17 Baltimore-area teams remaining unbeaten after four weeks (or five for Mount Saint Joseph)
NEWS
By Tim Swift and The Baltimore Sun | September 28, 2014
A Baltimore County police officer found two men suffering from stab wounds after a traffic stop early Saturday in Parkville, police said. Police later arrested Randy Monsio Bropleh, 21, and him charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault. Police said Bropleh was injured during the stabbings, but they did not elaborate. About 12:30 a.m., a county police officer saw a car go through a stop sign without stopping at Bon Air Road and Taylor Avenue. The officer followed and the car eventually stopped but backed into the patrol car, prompting the passenger to flee on foot.
NEWS
By Carrie Wells and The Baltimore Sun | September 27, 2014
Baltimore police charged a Parkville man Saturday in the stabbing of two Ottobar employees — one of them fatally — the day before, according to charging documents. Nicholas Brandon Heath, 32, of the 2500 block of Windsor Road has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Tom Malenski, 35, early Friday at the Remington concert venue. Malenski, an employee of the bar in the 2500 block of N. Howard St., was attending a concert on his night off when he helped a co-worker break up a fight and removed a patron, according to police and the bar's owner.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and The Baltimore Sun | September 25, 2014
Robert Gately Keenan Sr., a retired Baltimore County public schools agriculture teacher who was a Roman Catholic deacon, died of a brain tumor Tuesday at Stella Maris Hospice. The Parkville resident was 77. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Robert Keenan, an electrician, and Mary Catherine Gately, a homemaker. He grew up in Miami, where he attended schools. He earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture education at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1959. As a student taking senior-year education classes, he met his future wife, Olivia "Libbi" Lange.
NEWS
September 21, 2014
Larry Hogan, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, presents himself as someone who is strongly against politics as usual. To strengthen this claim he asserts that he is a small businessman "not a professional politician. " I wonder what he considers a professional politician to be. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention four times. He also ran against Rep. Steny Hoyer for Congress (and lost). But his most extensive political activity was as appointments secretary in the Ehrlich administration.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson and The Baltimore Sun | September 11, 2014
Four men have been charged in a fatal shooting at the Parkville Welcome Inn last month, Baltimore County police said Thursday. On Aug. 17 officers were called to the Welcome Inn in the 8700 block of Loch Bend Drive for a report of a shooting. They found Ramel Keith Baker, 30, in the alley suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He later died the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police said Thursday that Umar Hydeem Amin Foust, 22, of the 4700 block of Wards Chapel Road in Owings Mills; Nathaniel Martin Lawrence, 20, of the 5800 block of Waycross Road in Baltimore; Pompey Olivon Lawrence, 21, of no fixed address and Jermell Lamont Foster, 19, of the unit block of Mercury Court in Parkville, had been charged in the case.